Christianity Without a Lord
Earlier this year, I attended a large Christian event that left me strangely unsettled. Jesus was thanked. God was mentioned. There were smiles, applause, emotional speeches, and endless talk about impact. But something felt profoundly absent. Holiness was barely spoken of. Sin was almost entirely missing. Christ’s atoning sacrifice felt assumed rather than treasured. There was little reverence, little weight, little call toward repentance, obedience, sanctification, or the f
The Failure of Progress: Why We Can't Get it Right
Pandora’s Box, Progress, and the Problem We Can’t Fix I was recently thinking about the old myth of Pandora’s box. For the uninitiated, it is a Greek tale that sought an answer to the problem of suffering in the world. It paints a picture of the first woman, Pandora, a creation of Zeus, sent as punishment for Prometheus’s theft of fire. Each of the gods gave her gifts before sending her to earth. Zeus gave her a jar—though we have come to call it a box—and commanded her not
